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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: excellence, inspirational
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    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    ― Maurice Sendak
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    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    ― Walter Tevis
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    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
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    نزار قباني
    “In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    And think of you. Had I told the sea
    What I felt for you,
    It would have left its shores,
    Its shells,
    Its fish,
    And followed me.”
    ― Nizar Qabbani
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    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    ― John Grisham, The Rainmaker
    tags: be-yourself, courtroom-drama, crime
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    “Race and religion do not separate people; ignorance does.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: diversity-quotes, ignorance-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, race-quotes, racism-in-america, racism-quotes, religion-quotations, religion-quotes, tolerance-quotes, world-peace-quotes
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  • #11
    “Truth does not die because you buried it.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: honest-quotes, honesty-quotes, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-quotations, life-lessons-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, truth-quotations, truth-quotes, wise-quotes
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  • #12
    “Your presence only truly matters to those who cannot bear your absence.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: absence-quotes, friend-quotes, friendship-quotes, life-quotations, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, presence-quotes, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotes
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    “Where there are no caterpillars there are no butterflies.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: butterfly-quotes, caterpillar-quotes, inspirational-quotations, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, motivational-quotations, motivational-quotes, motivational-quotes-for-women
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    “Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still tying its shoe laces.”
    ― Matshona Dhliwayo
    tags: light-quotations, light-quotes, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, wisdom-quotations, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes
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